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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

-WILLIAM T. JOHNSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,201, dated January 18, 1887.

Application filed November 20, 1885. Serial No. 183,439. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM T. JOHNSON,

of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printing-ll/Iachines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention 'relates to a means for coloring paper as it is fed to printing-presses, the object of the invention being to tint the paper with various colors in stripes, and then to print over these colors with ordinary type and in the regular way. The work, when completed, simulates lithography, and as the process is continuous, the paper only having to be handled once, the, economy of the method is evident.

My invention colors the paper as it is unrolling, thus making a single and continuous process and doing away with the necessity of having to handle the paper more than once, no matter how many colors have to be employed or in what manner they have to be distributed or arranged.

I will illustrate my invention by the following device, referring to the accompanying drawings for the better explanation of the same.

Figure l is a side elevation of my invention, showing the paper being unrolled and fed under the brushes which hold the various colors, and moving without interruption over the printing-press. Fig. 2 is a transverse 'section on the line X X, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail View.

In the drawings, A represents a roll of ordinary white paper. As'thc paper unwinds the rollers B B receive it and draw it out. From these rollers it proceeds upward and over the roller 0, journaled in a support, 1, and under the brushes D', which contain a coloring liquid or liquids. The brushes D (made of camels hair or other suitable material) are set in the bottom of the ink-receptacles E. Sponges or pieces of cloth or other fibrous material may be placed in these rece tacles to regulate the flow of the liquid to the brushes beneath. Supported above the re- .ceptacles E on brackets 2 are the corresponding main reservoirs, F, which are adapted to hold considerable quantities of the fluid, and which discharge their contents into the receptacles E by means of the tubes G. The latter are provided with stop-cocks g, which are adapted to regulate the flow of the liquids from the main reservoirs F to the receptacles E below. 7

As the paper moves over the roll 0 and under the brushes D it will receive the colors from said brushes and assume the appearance shown in Fig. 2. It is then drawn by the rollers H H (supported on brackets 3, secured to the support 1) downwardly,and from thenceto the printingpress P. At the printing-press it. receives the impression ofthe type and is drawn rearwardly by the rollers J J. It will thus be seen that the. placing of the various colors, as well as the printing from the type, is all done by one continuous process, and dispenses with the necessity of the paper being handled more than once.

The class of printing with which my invention has to do is mostly handbills, circulars,

and other advertising-matter, the colors being so arranged as to attract the eye and render the words conspicuous.

It will be understood that I do not limit myself to the withindescribed device for carrying out my invention, as any other method of coloring the paper by means of brushes would answer the same purpose, the essential feature of my invention being the coloring of the paper.

By brushes I would have it understood that I mean any device which will absorb the coloring-matter and deposit it on the paper.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The continuous process hereinbefore described of printing handbills, circulars, and other advertising-matter so as to simulate lithography, which consists in feeding the paper from a roll over brushes or other suitable inking devices, then feeding the said roll, colored as described, over the platen of a printing-press, imprinting the desired matter on the paper and over the colors, and finally dividing the paper into the proper sizesfor handbills, &c., substantially as described.

\VILLIAM T. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

H. KNIGHT, EUGENE ESTOPPEY. 

